MARGARET'S SONG IN "FAUST." Mr. URBAN,-I venture to subjoin two translations of a perhaps untranslatable song. One, by an accomplished friend who occasionally amuses a green old age with such trifles, is elegant, but not closely literal; the other, somewhat rude and limping, I fear, sticks closer to text and rhythm, but is, after all, a very inadequate rendering of Goethe's elaborately simple verses. I suppose a German would pronounce them a caricature of the great poet's original; at least, I feel very sensibly that the aroma of the original has exhaled, or the delicate bloom (shall I say?) has disappeared, in the process of translating the German words into their English equivalents. I question much, however, if the simpler ditties of any of our great poets-Shakspeare's snatches of song, for example-have ever fared much better in the hands of even a German translator,-wielding, as he will assure us, the most plastic of all modern languages.-Yours, &c. March 20, 1857. Gone is my peace; G. G. C. When shall rest come to me? Where him I have met, And the whole world is bitter As gall is to me. My poor head is wandering Gone is my peace, &c. THE FAMILY OF THOMPSON OF ESHOLT. MR. URBAN,-You were kind enough, in a late number of your valuable Magazine, to give insertion to a query relative to the arms of the Thompsons of Esholt. No answer to, or notice of, the query seems to have been forthcoming. As the arms are quartered in the armorial bearings of the present Lord Wenlock, and used by Sir Thomas Thompson, Baronet, and by the "gentilitial" family of the same name resident in Yorkshire, and as they are, besides, of comparatively ancient date,-I think the query relating to them will not C. be uninteresting. The difficulty in the inquiry is to ascertain why the various families claiming the use of the arms ignore the original grantee in their pedigrees. In order to elicit further information on this subject, I supply a few authentic particulars. The reader of English history will remember that Henry VIII. captured the town of Boulogne in the year 1544. On that occasion several men distinguished themselves. One of these was Sir Ralph Ellecker, of Risby, to whom, or to whose a Macintosh says, in his "History of England," that the reduction of Boulogne had "a sort of middle character between a siege and a tournament, and was chiefly remarkable as a display of prowess, and an exhibition of the feats of arms of the youth of two warlike nations." family, the monarch granted a crest,-two dolphins addorsed,- -as a mark of honour in memory of the knight having taken the Dauphin's standard. Another of the valiant Englishmen was one of the king's own gentlemen-at-arms, Henry Thompson, Esq., to whom was given the Maison Dieu at Dover, as a reward for his services on the same occasion. For some reason, this gentleman subsequently exchanged the property at Dover for the manor of Bromfield, co. Cumberland: Lyson says that one was granted by Edward VI. in lieu of the other. The manor of Esholt, Yorkshire, was also granted to Henry Thompson, (Monasticon Eboracense,) in the reign of Edward VI. (See also Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. v. p. 474, Bohn's edition.) In the year 1559, says one of the Harleian MSS., (1,394, folio 337,)" these armes, viz. party p fece silver and sable, a fece batelle, three faulcons countercharged of the field, the belles and beakes gould; the crest, or badge, an arme quarterly gould and azure, with a gauntlett of the colour of harneys, holding of a troncheon or speare gould, set upon a wreath silver and sable, were granted by Laurence Dalton, alias Norroy king-atarmes to Henry Tompson, of Eshold, in the county of York, gentleman, and one of the king's majesty's gentlemen-at-arms, at Boloigne, by letters patents," &c. And in another of the Harleian MSS. (1,487, folio 310,) of a later date than the preceding, Henry Thompson, of Esholt, the abbreviation kt. for knight follows the grantee's name. Now this coat of arms, I take it, is the earliest of this family, and all others resembling it are derived from it, and were assumed or used only in consideration of relationship to the original grantee. If an earlier grant can be cited of a similar shield, then it may be argued that Henry Thompson's was derived from it; but in the absence of this example, his must be held to be the earliest. This being the case, I ask, how is it that none of the present families using the arms trace up to the proprietor of Esholt? The present Lord Wenlock inherits the arms from his grandmother, Jane Thompson, the descendant of Sir Henry Thompson, of Kilham and Escrick, who traced up to James Thompson, Esq., of Thornton in Pickering Lythe; to whom also the Thompsons of Kilham, and elsewhere, in Yorkshire, refer as the founder of their family. But in none of the pedigrees do they name Henry of Esholt, directly or indirectly; although, as we have seen, he was the original grantee of the arms they all use, with slight variations. In order to elucidate the connection of the branches of this ancient and wealthy family, I annex the pedigree of the Esholt branch, from which it requires to be shewn the others were descended, if their claim to the armorial bearings is to be clearly established :— Ellen, daughter of Lawrence Towneley, Esq., of Barnside, county Lancaster. This pedigree is taken, I believe, from the visitation record of 1612; and I have seen none of a later date. It will be observed that the founder left only one son, William, who had two sons, Christopher and Henry. Of Henry-whether he died married or unmarried, whether he left is sue or no issue,-the pedigree gives no information. The descendants of Christopher, in the second generation, were unborn when the visitation was made; but a later visitation would probably contain their names. It is on record that the daughter of Henry (the heir of Christo pher) was married to Walter Calverley, of Calverley, Esq., into whose possession the estate at Esholt passed from the Thompson family. It is, however, to be especially remarked, that in the above pedigree there is not a single person who appears to have been connected with the Thompsons of Kilham, Escrick, Humbleton, Thornton, or any of the places alluded to in Sir Bernard Burke's "Landed Gentry." How is this remarkable discrepancy to be accounted for? I am, &c., GENEALOGICUS. CLAMP OF HUNTINGDON. MR. URBAN,-Having looked in vain for the name of Clamp (whose widow Judge Meade married, in the reign of Elizabeth,) in Burke's "General Armory" and "Landed Gentry," as well as Edmondson's "Heraldry," perhaps I may not be so unsuccessful in making the enquiry through your columns, of some one acquainted with the name? The name of the lady before marriage may also be known. At the same time, I hope that I may not offend in observing that I believe, on the testimony of Morant, the learned Mr. Foss has confused the three Meades in his last note, p. 329. True, Mr. Sperling has united the first with the second in his pedigree. I believe the Thomas who married and had "issue, one daughter," did not afterwards marry Johanna Clamp; but was father (by his second wife, probably Joan Crawley",) of the Thomas who did do so, i. e. the Judge, of Elmdon. And the Judge's son, the third of the pedigree, was the knighted one, and who is not confounded with the second; but is made a Judge of the King's Bench, as well as his father, who was only a puisne of the Court of Common Pleas. So much, I think, will be admitted, on a review of the evidence, by the learned editor of the "Grandeur of the Law." As Mr. Sperling may yet favour us with some additional light, I will only add, that I am yours, monthly, OSTRICH SEMEE. P. S. May I ask further, who the father of the ejected minister of Stepney, Matthew Mead, was? In no one of the many memoirs of him have I seen his father and mother given. He was born somewhere in Buckinghamshire, in 1629. March 10th. JOAN DE BEAUFORT AND SIR H. BROOKE. MR. URBAN,-I believe "T. B." will find the following information, respecting the first of these two persons of whom he makes inquiries, correct : "Joan" was an illegitimate daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, by Catharine Swinford, daughter of Payn Roet, alias Guyen, king-of-arms, and widow of Sir Oates Swinford. After being the mother of Joan, and also of three sons, who were all legitimated by act of parliament, she became his wife. John of Gaunt caused all his natural children to be called " Beaufort," from the castle of that name in the county of Anjou, the place of their nativity. "Joan" was first married to Sir Robert Ferrers, of Oversley; and secondly, to Ralph Nevile, first Earl of Westmoreland; and died anno 1440, and was buried in Lincoln Cathedral. The date of her decease is the information "T. B." was anxious to obtain, but I thought the other particulars concerning her might be acceptable. Of Sir Henry Brooke I can learn nothing; and the title of "Cobham" having become extinct some two centuries ago, it is difficult to know where to search for particulars of him, unless any acts of his are matters of history. H. L. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER-SINGULAR MISTAKE IN IT. "The Abp. of Cant. told me by his bed. side, on Monday, Feb. 12th, 1716, that in the review of the Liturgy, upon the Act of Uniformity, the book to be confirmed by that Act, and to be the standard for all other copies, had some mistakes in it, and particularly in the Rubric after Baptism: "It is certain by God's Word that children which are baptized, dying before they commit actual sin, are undoubtedly saved.' "The words which are baptized' were left out, till Sir Cyril Wyche, coming to see the Lord Chancellor Hyde, found the book brought home by his lordship, and lying in his parlour window, after its having passed the two Houses, and happening to cast his eye upon the place, told the Lord Chancellor of the gross omission, who supplied it with his own hand." E. G. B. "Daughter and co-heir of Thos. Crawley, of Loftes, Essex."-Visitation, 1634. ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES. SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. Feb. 26. Octavius Morgan, Esq. V.-P., in the chair. Mr. J. Jackson Howard exhibited a grant from William, surnamed Conrad, "Arbalistarius," of the king of England, to Richard de Gloucester, moneyer of London, of tenements in the parish of St. Dunstan-at-the-Tower; dated 33 Edward I., 1305. Appended to this instrument is a seal, on which is represented a cross-bow in pale; legend, S. WILLI : CONRAD. The Rev. T. H. Ellacombe communicated drawings of a curious sepulchral monument, and sculptured figures of St. Anne and the Virgin, discovered some time since in the church of Langridge. The sepulchral figure is supposed to be of a member of the family of Walsh, who were possessors of the manor of Langridge in the time of the early Edwards. Professor Buckman exhibited several fibulæ and other personal ornaments from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Fairford, in Gloucestershire; also relics from Avening, and from Stratton, near Cirencester. Mr. Edward Hewett, of Winchfield, sent for exhibition selections from twenty-six bronze celts, found on his land at Seal, near Crooksbury-hill, Farnham, by labourers occupied in trenching, about sixteen inches from the surface. With two exceptions, they were of the ordinary types. Mr. Morgan, V.-P., exhibited an object termed a "Trinity ring," turned out of a single band of ivory-the work, in all probability, of Stephen Zick, who was eminent in the art of turning in the seventeenth century. It is formed by a single band of ivory making three circuits intertwined with each other, but yet distinct, thus making a threefold ring. The art of forming such rings is now lost. Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., communicated an account of a singular privilege granted by Henry II., at the time of the conquest of Ireland, to the family of Macgillemory. From the Pleas of the Crown concerning the gaol delivery at Waterford, before John Wogan, Chief Justice of Ireland in the fourth year of Edward II., it appears that Robert le Waleys, accused of the death of John, son of Yvor Macgillemory, feloniously slain by the said Robert, comes and acknowledges that he killed the aforesaid John; but he says that by his murder he could not commit a felony, because he says that the said John was a mere Irishman," (purus Hibernicus). The family of the deceased, however, prove their being within the pale of the English law, and cite the privilege granted by Henry II., whereupon the slayer is committed to gaol: it appears, nevertheless, that he was subsequently admitted to bail. March 5. J. Hunter, Esq., V.-P., in the chair. Mr. John Stuart Glennie was elected Fellow. The Rev. Thomas Hugo exhibited two objects in lead, of unknown use; but, as he conjectures, the coverings of the heads of saints. They were found in the bed of the Thames. Mr. Henry Shaw reported, in a letter to the Treasurer, the termination of excavations, sanctioned by the Society, on the site of Chertsey Abbey, the result of which was the discovery of the bones of men and animals, fragments of tiles, and a fragment of a sepulchral slab, but no relic of importance. Mr. B. Nightingale exhibited a string of beads, of the late Roman or Saxon period, discovered near Donaghadee, in the townland of Loughey, county of Down, by a labouring man, when moulding potatoes in a field. They resemble a string of beads found in a Frankish grave at St. Aubinsur-Scie, and presented to the Society by the Abbé Cochet. Mr. F. C. Lukis exhibited and presented a plaster cast of a stone celt, having a human face carved on it, found near Clermont, in Auvergne, France. The original is an unique object. The Secretary communicated a transcript of a document among the Baynes papers, entitled "A Way to induce all originall Creditors mutually to agree to prevent Competitors in purchasing the King's Lands," &c. The original draft is in the handwriting of Capt. Adam Baynes. Sir Henry Ellis communicated "A Relation of the Lord Fauconberg's Embassy to the States of Italy, in the year 1669, addressed to King Charles II.;" transcribed from the original MS., signed by Lord Fauconberg himself, preserved in a volume of the Sloane Collection in the British Museum, No. 2752. March 12. Edward Hawkins, Esq., V.-P., in the chair. Mr. Jackson Howard exhibited the seal of Lady Alianora Lucy, appended to a letter of attorney, dated 17th Dec., 25 ably fine specimen of Gobelin tapestry, of the time of Charles II., which had formerly belonged to a Venetian duke. The subject, beautifully portrayed, and the colours exceedingly brilliant, was from "Don Quixote." Mr. W. H. Black read an interesting paper "on the Successive Statutes of the Order of the Garter, and their various Texts and Versions." He stated that the statutes of the founder, Edward III., existed in three distinct Latin texts; were succeeded by those of Henry V. in French, which, with some variations and additions under Edward IV. or Henry VII., continued to the reign of Henry VIII., who in 1522 established a new body of statutes. These last are recorded in Latin in the black book of the order, which was thought by Ashmole to contain their original text; but Anstis doubted whether they were not published in a different language; indeed, they have always, from the reign of Henry Feb. 25. T. J. Pettigrew, F.R.S., F.S.A., VIII. to the present time, been given forth V.-P., in the chair. The Earl of Albemarle, F.S.A., was enrolled an Associate, and it was announced that his Lordship would preside at the congress to be held in Norfolk at the close of August next. Presents from the Royal Society, Archæaological Institute, Spalding Club, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, &c., were laid upon the table. Mr. J. Clarke communicated a list of various tradesmen's tokens and other coins lately discovered at Brandeston, Easton, and Framlingham, in Suffolk. Mr. G. R. Corner, F.S.A., exhibited eight metal spoons of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, all found in London. Some were of latten, others of pewter. He also exhibited a curious old water-jug, which had once possessed a bright red glaze. It was found in the New Kentroad. Mr. Gunston exhibited seven rings: one silver, of the early part of the fifteenth century; three of brass, one a Zodiac ring, (Aries); and three signet thumb-rings, one of which was found in Ireland, another in Suffolk. He also exhibited two iron spear-heads, the head of a musket rest, and a curious knife, found in the Thames, near Southwark-bridge. Mr. Wills exhibited a Cousen-lane token, marked Condit-lane, Dowgate. Mr. Forman produced a beautiful Chinese coverlet in needlework, and Mr. H. Syer Cuming read some notes on coverlets, counterpanes, quilts, &c., illustrating his remarks by references to early English poets. Mr. Forman also exhibited a remark- to the knights of the order in English. Mr. Black pointed out from the error of date in the English copies, which gives the eighth year, instead of the fourteenth, of Henry's reign, as equivalent to 1522, that the English text is not the original, and proved by internal evidence of phraseology and of senseless mistakes, that both the English and the Latin text of these statutes must have had a French original. This French text is extant in the Public Record Office, in a volume inscribed with the king's own hand. He then described the various drafts and other evidences existing in different repositories, by which the compilation of Henry's English statutes is distinctly traceable to the French text of his predecessors; and concluded by expressing his opinion that the first statutes of the order were likewise published in French, the court language of Edward the Third's time, and not in Latin; and recommended further search for that original French text which thirty years' researches had not enabled him yet to discover, but which, if found, might easily be distinguished from those of Henry V. and his successors, by the absence of their interpolations and additions, as well as by agreement with the Latin copies. March 11. T. J. Pettigrew, F.R.S., F.S.A., V.-P., in the chair. Mr. Kerr, the translator of Ranke's "History of Servia," was elected an associate. Various presents were laid upon the table. Exhibitions of numerous rings were made by Mr. Gunston, Mr. Wills, Mr. 30 |